Chunyang Cao
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Institute of Organic Chemistry
China
Biography
Education and Appointments： 2006–present: Professor, State Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic CAS 2005-2006: Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Sandiago, Washington D.C., USA 2001-2005: Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 1998-2001: Ph.D., Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, CAS,
Research Interest
Health and diseases directed chemical biology and structure biology mainly by NMR Mechanism on the expression of neuron stem cell repressed by dsDNA and activated by small dsRNA DNA base methylation damage and repair HIV-1 virus infection and DNA deamination DNA backbone sulfur modification Mechanism on how protein is transported correctly Histone modification and its specific recognition Novel method development on protein expression and structure determination
Publications
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Zhang Y., Hu W., Shen J., Tong XT, Lan WX, Cao C*. Cys397 plays important roles in the global folding of the neuron-restricted silencer factor/RE1-silencing transcription factor, BBRC, 2011, in press
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Zhu S, Peigneur S, Gao B, Lu X, Cao C*, Tytgat J. Evolutionary diversification of Mesobuthus {alpha}-scorpion toxins affecting sodium channels, Mol Cell Proteomics, 2011,in press
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Lan WX, Wang ZH, Yang ZZ, Cao C*. et al Conformational toggling of Yeast Iso-1-cytochrome c in the oxidized and reduced states, PLoS One, 2011, accepted
